EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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icating liquors shall be sold in the said county or in any elec-

tion district, town or city of said county," be and the same are

hereby repealed, and that the following sections be enacted

in lieu thereof, to be known as Sections 1A, 2, 3, 4, 4A and

46, and that an additional section be added to Chapter 195,

to be called Section 18, prohibiting the sale of liquor in certain

districts of said county :

I A. For the purpose of determining the question as to

whether or not any licenses shall be granted in Salisbury Elec-

Special elec-

tion District No. 9 and Delmar Election District No. 11 for

tion.

the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverages therein, the sense

of the qualified and registered voters of said Salisbury Elec-

tion District No. 9 and" Delmar Election District No.11 shall

be taken at a special election which shall be held in each of said

districts on Tuesday, April 26, 1904.

2. That whenever such of the registered qualified

voters of any election district, city or town of Wicomico

Supervisors of
Elections to

County (except such election districts wherein the sale of spir-

act upon peti-
tion of voters

ituous and intoxicating liquors as hereinafter prohibited) as

of election

constitute one-half of all the votes cast for all the candidates

districts.

for Governor at such election in said election district, city

or town, shall petition the Supervisors of Elections for Wicom-

ico County for the submission at the next regular congres-

sional election held in said county, for the question of granting

or not granting any license for the sale of intoxicating liquors

for beverages therein, the Supervisors of Elections shall order

an election to be held for the purpose of determining said

question, which said election shall be held at the same time

as a regular congressional election in said county ; provided,

however, that after the special election provided for in the pre-

ceding section to be held in Salisbury Election District No. 9

and Delmar Election District No. 11 there shall not be held

another election in said districts to determine said question

for a period of four years from the congressional election next

following said special election.

3. The said elections provided for in the two pre-

ceding sections, that is to say, both the special elec-

General elec-

tions to be held in Salisbury Election . District No. 9

tion laws of
the State to

and Delmar Election District No. n. and any other election

govern local
elections.

which may take place under the provisions of Section 2,

shall be held under the supervision of the Board of Supervisors

of Elections for Wicomico County, and as to the place of hold-

ing the same, the printing of ballots and the distribution there-

of, the method of voting and of counting said ballots, and in